ST to close R&D center in Sophia-AntipolisProduct News 10/4/2007 Post a commentGood and bad news for the city of Sophia-Antipolis, on the French Riviera. While NXP has clearly expressed plans to reinforce its local R&D activities in wireless technologies, rumors are floating around that STMicroelectronics NV will close down its center.

Non-volatile fast SRAM takes aim at expanding marketsProduct News 10/3/2007 Post a commentSimtek announced the first two 4-Mbit products in its 130-nm CMOS SONOS family of nvSRAM ICs, which are said to deliver 40 percent better access times, four to eight times higher densities and increased system performance over their predecessors.

Supervisor monitors 0.5-V to 12-V input rangeProduct News 10/3/2007 Post a commentLinear's single voltage supervisor with a watchdog input is capable of monitoring a wide input range of 0.5- to 12-volts, and can monitor 27 unique pin-selectable thresholds, ranging from a 1-V drained single AA battery up to 12-V industrial applications.

LED driver housed in TSOT packageProduct News 10/2/2007 Post a commentExar Corp. has entered the industrial and architectural lighting market with the release of a high-voltage step-down DC/DC controller. The SP7601 LED driver delivers an input voltage range up to 30 V in a small 6-pin TSOT package.